Marine Corps Times
By Dan Lamothe
Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Mar 23, 2013
Lance Cpl. Kenneth Cochran was on his way to refuel an electric generator at a patrol base in Afghanistan when disaster struck: He brushed a low-hanging wire and was electrocuted.
That Jan. 14, 2012, incident in Helmand province’s Musa Qala district resulted in a brilliant flash of light at about 10 p.m. that other Marines saw from guard posts. But Cochran, a water support specialist with 9th Engineer Support Battalion, out of Okinawa, Japan, wasn’t found dead until the following morning, when a corporal went to check on the generator because power was out in the nearby combat operations center.
The story gets worse from there. When Cochran was discovered at about 7 a.m., Cpl. Jon-Luke Bateman and a few other Marines attended to him. Bateman, an infantryman with 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., knelt beside him to cover his remains with a blanket. When he stood, Bateman also came into contact with a live wire, becoming the second Marine electrocuted on the base in less than 12 hours.
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